10 September 2025
What was intended as a 20+ km of run at earlier hours covering 5 locations, became shortened and restricted to within my neighbourhood.
I woke up an hour later than planned and by the time I could get out the door, it was past 9am with the sun shining happily bright. My plan was dented and I had to quickly reshuffle training plans for the week.
It was of no choice but to cover shorter distance today and preferably more shaded.
I quickly decided to split the my runs for the week into 2 shorter long runs over two separate days, instead of the usual routine of 1 long run day and another for speed and intensity. And a cheerful thought pepped me up - I could do a sunrise run on Sunday as the usual running schedule may be tweaked - and I could get another solo running day - I will do that!
So I covered 16km today by running in my neighbourhood, from home to the Sports School and returned to run in the Nature Park that I usually do Intervals. I tried to rein myself in and refrained from spotting nature and photo- taking but ... well I guess I spent shorter time looking and taking pictures than I usually would :P
The only real personal slow-down was to go investigate how the Mangrove came to be now as I haven't gone in to that part of the park for a very long while.
Dismally, some large trees had been cut, and polluted the swamp area was - littered with plastics and cans. I did not see much wildlife except some mangrove crabs and shells.
Well, if not for the change of plans, I would have not gotten the opportunity to visit this area of the Park again, and to plan for the sunrise run on the coming weekend!
Sometimes sudden and unforeseen changes can be a boost in life, and we need to make effort to realize that. π
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